Operator-Led.
Execution-Focused.
From product-market fit to scale
Henry Arias, MBA
Founder & Managing Partner
Henry is the Founder and Managing Partner of Altelan Capital, a growth-stage firm investing in food, beverage, and FoodTech platforms at the inflection point between product-market fit and scaled distribution.
He has experience across investment teams that have deployed over $1 billion in capital, including leading corporate development at a large family office focused on founder-led brands. He brings deep go-to-market expertise across retail, foodservice, and digital channels, with a track record of translating that knowledge into commercial outcomes for founders. This means opening doors to strategic partnerships and key retail relationships, backed by a network of exited founders and operators who provide targeted guidance across the areas that matter most.
Durability beats growth at all costs, and the next generation of food winners will be defined by operational resilience, cultural resonance, and the moat that follows. He writes about what that means for founders and operators in The Endcap, his Substack on food and food technology.
Henry holds an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a B.A. from Wesleyan University. He serves on the board of the Pike Place Market Foundation and is an active member of the Association for Corporate Growth and the Seattle Alternative Investment Association.
Operating Network
Operators across finance and go-to-market,
focused on scaling and exit readiness
Stephen B. Loeb
Industry Advisor
Stephen B. Loeb is a third-generation leader in the beverage distribution industry. Beginning his career with Alaska Distributors Co. in 1968, Steve rose to President in 1998 and CEO in 2003, guiding the company through a period of remarkable expansion. He guided the company to tenfold sales growth, scaling from $35M to $350M in revenue with a market and customer-first approach before its sale in 2009.
Since then, Steve has served as a Director, Trustee, and Advisor for numerous for-profit and non-profit boards. He is currently a Trustee of Pomona College and Board Chair at Fremont Brewing. His past leadership includes roles with Jewish Family Service, Museum of Glass, Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle, Cascade Public Media, Rainier Club Historical Society, and Alliance of Angels.
Steve’s industry involvement includes time with the Wine and Spirits Wholesalers of America, National Beer Wholesalers Association, Association of Washington Business, and the Washington Roundtable. He has also advised companies such as TC Global, Taphandles, TOOSUM Healthy Foods, Plymouth Inc., Oscar Wilde Spirits, and Moda Beverage.
A Seattle native, Loeb holds a B.A. in economics from Pomona College and an MBA in finance and marketing from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.
Gennadiy Goldenshteyn
Industry Advisor
Gennadiy Goldenshteyn's career sits at the intersection of food, product development, and technology, bringing firsthand experience as an innovator, operator, and builder. That foundation gives him a rare combination of operational insight, technical rigor, and commercial judgment sharp enough to assess not just whether a product or technology works, but whether it can win at scale.
As Head of Global Engineering at YUM! Brands, Gennadiy led technology and operations initiatives across one of the world’s largest and most complex restaurant systems, advancing innovative solutions that enhanced the experiences of customers and team members. He later served as Vice President of Advanced Systems at Welbilt, a leading provider of commercial foodservice solutions, where he led the development and commercialization of new to the industry technologies, navigating the full path from idea through market adoption.
Today, Gennadiy is Founder and Managing Partner of Dinemic Ventures, a product development studio focused on next-generation solutions across foodservice, food production, and hospitality, and Managing Partner at First Principles, a consultancy that helps clients tackle complex strategy and operations challenges by returning to foundational basics. Both keep him engaged across the full innovation stack: the emerging technologies reshaping the industry, the founders building them, and the operators putting them to use. Earlier in his career, he served clients across industries at McKinsey & Company, where he also played a central role in building and scaling the firm's Product Development practice.
Gennadiy holds an MS in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and a BS in Mechanical Engineering from UC Berkeley.
Julia Ruedig McBeath
Industry Advisor
Julia Ruedig McBeath's career spans the full arc of modern food retail, from building operational infrastructure from scratch to setting strategy and policy for a $36B organization across Amazon Fresh, Whole Foods, and their key ecosystem partners.
At Amazon Grocery, her mandate covered some of the most consequential food retail operations in the world. She built the investment frameworks governing capital allocation, established company-wide policy on Animal Welfare and Deforestation, and led the national scaling of tech-enabled food waste partnerships with Too Good To Go and Pixel AI, serving throughout as a direct advisor to CEOs and SVPs.
The strategic credibility was built from the ground up. At Amazon Fresh, she built produce quality, food waste, and inspection infrastructure from scratch, and launched the alcohol category into a multi-hundred-million dollar business. She also piloted machine learning applications for automated supply chain inspection before taking on Fresh's online ordering capacity system during the COVID demand surge, making real-time decisions across a national fulfillment network under pressure.
She serves on the Advisory Board of ReFED, advising on systemic solutions to food loss and waste.
She holds an MBA and MS from the University of Michigan and a BA from Scripps College.
Bob Wallach
Industry Advisor
Bob Wallach is a highly respected operating executive in the food industry, a seasoned early-stage investor and a board member for several prominent companies in food & beverages.
Bob’s professional career encompasses CMO/CRO roles at large consumer products companies including Kraft, Dannon, Nabisco and Krusteaz where he led marketing, sales, strategic planning and M & A.
Bob has also been a successful CEO founder/entrepreneur and is currently an investor in numerous early-stage companies.
Bob serves on the Boards of Directors of Lopez Dorada Foods, Melt Organic and The Alliance of Angels. He previously served on the Boards of multiple consumer products companies (SunFly, Korvata, Oleo, Revel) and the board of The American Marketing Association.
During his career Bob has received numerous awards for accelerating business growth including recognition by Advertising Age as one of the “Top 100 Marketers in America”.
Bob is a frequent guest lecturer on university campuses and mentors MBA students at the University of Washington Foster School of Business.
Bob holds an MBA from Columbia University, and a BS from The State University of New York at Albany.
Om Nath
Investment & Data Consultant
Om serves as an Investment & Data Consultant at Altelan Capital, specializing in sourcing and evaluating startups, automating data workflows, and analyzing financial and operational data to support investment decisions. He also helps portfolio companies drive growth and value creation. Previously, he consulted for Pure Watercraft, leading fundraising efforts to secure private equity and debt capital. Om has extensive experience in Mergers & Acquisitions advisory, collaborating with bankers at major investment banks including Jefferies, Deutsche Bank, and UBS, across Power Utility & Infrastructure, Industrials, and Aerospace & Defence sectors. He holds a Bachelor of Engineering from the National Institute of Technology Durgapur.
He is also the founder of Shangrila Renao, a luxury Airbnb chain in India, where he and his wife design, build, and operate premium stays across multiple states.
Outside work, Om enjoys trekking, cycling, running, traveling, djembe drum circle, and supporting local animal welfare NGOs.
Brent G. Reys
Industry Advisor
Brent G. Reys is Chief Financial Officer for a single-family office in Sausalito, California, where he oversees disciplined financial and governance processes to help achieve long-term investment goals. With more than 25 years of experience—including roles as President of a multi-family office, Chief Investment Officer for a Fortune 400 single-family office, investment banker, and executive advisor—Brent brings deep expertise to the families and companies he serves.
He sits on several family-owned company boards and non-profit boards, offering guidance on investments, governance, succession, family dynamics, and philanthropy.
Appointed by Governor Christine Gregoire to the Washington Technology Center Board, he served as Vice Chair of Finance and has contributed to organizations such as the University of Washington’s Burke Museum, Tacoma Glass Museum, Museum of History & Industry, Cancer Lifeline, and as a founding member of the Gage Academy.
Brent holds a B.A. in Corporate Finance from Seattle Pacific University. A Seattle native, he lives in Leschi with his family and enjoys the Pacific Northwest’s outdoors.
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